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The evaluation of citation distributions

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de EconomĂ­aes
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomĂ­a
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-30T12:25:32Z
dc.date.available2011-06-30T12:25:32Z
dc.date.issued2011-06
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in the evaluation of research. Next, a summary of results about the citation distributions’ basic features at different aggregation levels is offered. These results indicate that citation distributions share the same broad shape, are highly skewed, and are often crowned by a power law. In light of this evidence, a novel methodology for the evaluation of research units is illustrated by comparing the high- and low-citation impact achieved by the U.S., the European Union, and the rest of the world in 22 scientific fields. However, contrary to recent claims, it is shown that mean normalization at the sub-field level does not lead to a universal distribution. Nevertheless, among other topics subject to ongoing research, it appears that this lack of universality does not preclude sensible normalization procedures to compare the citation impact of articles in different scientific fields.
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Community's Seventh Framework Program
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author acknowledges financial support from Santander Universities Global Division of Banco Santander, as well as from the Spanish MEC through grant SEJ2007-67436. This paper is part of the SCIFI-GLOW Collaborative Project supported by the European Commission’s Seventh Research Framework Programme, Contract no. SSH7-CT-2008-217436.en
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/11672
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000000898
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/13323
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries11-12
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/217436
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. SEJ2007-67436
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomĂ­a
dc.titleThe evaluation of citation distributions
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